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Editor’s note: The Daily Press is launch-ing a new weekly series, Primer. Each Saturday, our reporters will explain an institution, law, issue or trend that impacts Santa Monica. To suggest a topic, email [email protected].
Signs inform scooter users that
they are forbidden from riding into local parks and tourist attractions, but the message really gets across after the devices automatically stop when riders try their luck.
Santa Monica was one of the first cities in the world to use geofencing to manage the movement of electric scooters. The city requires the
BRENNON DIXSONSMDP Staff Writer
Being diagnosed with cancer can be a scary time in one’s life as the disease often takes an emotional and physical toll on those who are diagnosed. But thanks to the surgeons and staff at the UCLA Breast Center Santa Monica, residents do not have to go through the fight alone.
Marjan Shokri is a former breast cancer patient who received care at the local breast center when she was diagnosed with cancer in 2016. On Thursday, the survivor reminisced on the life-saving assistance she received at the local center, which is a place she said she is forever indebted to.
Shokri was joined by UCLA Health staff, administrators and other former patients Thursday for an open house event that sought to celebrate the center’s growth and allow visitors an opportunity to tour the facility.
“The center started in 2012 in Santa Monica when six different
specialists decided to create a team,” Dr. Amy Kusske said prior to the event. “So, the goal of this was that every newly diagnosed breast cancer patient — their radiology was reviewed, their pathology was
reviewed and then they’re met with a medical oncologist, a radiation oncologist, breast surgeon,” and possibly a plastic surgeon and a
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Early voting means primary is already hereKATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press
The Iowa caucuses are more than a week away, but millions of Americans are already free to vote.
Early voting in the crush of Super Tuesday states that hold primaries on March 3 amounts to a parallel campaign for the Democratic nomination. While much of the focus is on who will
come out on top in the traditional first four voting states, early voting will allow a much broader swath of voters to play a key role in picking the nominee.
In Minnesota, in-person early voting began Jan. 17. Vermont’s deadline to mail out its absentee ballots was the same day. Many of the 14 Super Tuesday states will offer some form of early voting between now and mid-February.
These states will test the organizational strength of the White House hopefuls. The campaigns must balance the demands of the first four states — Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada — while also making sure to target potential supporters in the Super Tuesday states that follow. Some campaigns must manage
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Saturday, January 25Fireside at the Miles - Voices Only: An Evening of a Capella A Capella group Frequency and host Tom Keyes, return to host a night of all vocal music where we showcase the power of the human voice: the most versatile instru-ment ever created! Featuring a variety of voices and styles, it’s a night to relax and enjoy music. 8 - 10 p.m. Tickets available at https://onlyvoicesacapella.eventbrite.com/
Bird Talk: All About BluebirdsIan Kimbrey knows gorgeous Western Bluebirds like few others. Funny and enter-taining, Ian not only will tell you all about these beautiful birds in our midst, but also how to bring them into your backyard. And, he’ll bring some of his own CheepCheep Homes bird boxes to show. Wild Birds Unlimited 12433 Wilshire Blvd, 2 p.m.
Mental Health Town HallThe Department of Mental Health in collab-oration with the Mental Health Commission will hold a stakeholder event to educate and inform and hear from community members on how to improve the land-scape of mental health services in West Los Angeles. Multiple sessions through-out the day from 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. at the Santa Monica Bay Woman’s Club, 1210 4th Street. Visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/service-area-west-la-town-hall-tick-ets-88900067495 for more information.
Nathalie Kramer: California Authors - Literary ReadingNathalie Kramer will be hosting her first literary event with four California writers, Dinah Lenney, Andrew Tonkovich, Lisa Alvarez, and David Preizler. They will read from their California-based prose, which engages a sense of place and its relevan-cy in their work. Annenberg Community Beach House, 4 - 5:30 p.m.
Read & PlayA story time for the very young, followed by play activities designed to cultivate key developmental skills. Fairview Branch Library 3:30 - 5 p.m.
RE/SIGHT: Our Family HistoryNot sure where to begin to preserve your family’s history? Panelists, Carolyne Edwards, a Santa Monica native who launched the Quinn Research Center with
her husband Bill Edwards, and Arianne Edmonds, a fifth generation Angeleno and founder of the JL Edmonds Project, will share their personal journeys with family archives. Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/resight-our-family-his-tory-talk-with-carolyne-edwards-ari-anne-edmonds-tickets-89649176099 3 - 4:30 p.m. Main Library.
Travel Through High School with College in MindCollege counselor Nick Soper and teen therapist Kristine Tye of TeenLAUNCH will help students and parents map out pri-orities for each year of high school as they prepare for college. Students will be encouraged to picture the future beyond college to help influence their life-plan-ning now. Grades 8-12 and Parents. Main Library, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
SAT Pre-Course PracticeThis guided workshop by Study Smart Tutors outlines all of the important infor-mation you need to know about the SAT test so you can prepare correctly, reduce your stress, and get your best score. Registration required. Presented in collab-oration with Virginia Avenue Park. Register by calling (310) 458-8684 or via email at [email protected]
Sunday, January 26
Happy Birthday Marion! Celebrate Marion Davies’ birthday with the SM Conservancy docents. 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. http://happybirthdaymarion2015.eventbrite.com/
Monday January 27
Airport Commission MeetingThe Santa Monica Airport Commission is scheduled to meet in the East Wing of Civic Auditorium 1855 Main Street Santa Monica, CA 90401 on January 27, February 24, March 23, and April 7. 7 p.m.
Pajama Story Time with Officer Noell GrantListen to stories read by police officer Noell Grant and learn about what she does. Craft to follow. Fairview Branch Library, 6:30 - 7:15 p.m.
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raise costsANICK JESDANUN AND BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
The company that controls the dot-org online universe is putting the registry of domain names up for sale, and the nonprofits that often use the suffix in their websites are raising concerns about the move.
About 15 people protested Friday outside the Los Angeles headquarters of the regulatory body for domain names, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. ICANN is meeting this weekend and is expected to rule by mid-February on plans by private-equity firm Ethos Capital to buy the Public Interest Registry for $1.1 billion.
The protesters carried signs saying “Save Dot Org” and chanted “ICANN, you can, stop the sale.”
They planned to give 34,000 signatures objecting to the sale to a board member. Around 700 organizations such as Greenpeace, Sierra Club, YMCA, YWCA and Girl Scouts of America also oppose the sale, protesters said.
Opponents are concerned the cost of registering a dot-org website will skyrocket, and they worry about the potential loss of freedoms of speech and expression if the registry is in the wrong hands.
“It’s easy to put two and two together and see the concern that economic or other pressures could push this new for-profit PIR to make decisions that are detrimental to nonprofits,” said Elliot Harmon, activism director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Ethos Capital and the Internet Society, which runs the registry now, said those concerns are misplaced and the sale is being misunderstood.
The two groups said in a statement that prices will remain low, the registry’s managers will stay in place and the infusion of capital will ensure the long-term growth of dot-org.
They also rejected assertions that online content would be spied on and censored.
“This notion is baseless and, frankly, a demonstration of the type of speculation that has taken the discussion surrounding the future of .ORG irresponsibly out of context,” the statement said. “Ethos and PIR take freedom of expression very seriously, and the registry’s commitment to free speech will continue unabated.”
Domain names such as apnews.com have historically been used by computers to find websites and send email, and their value grew as companies and groups adopted them for branding. The Associated Press, a nonprofit, also uses a dot-org domain, ap.org.
Speculators have registered a variety of names under popular domain suffixes such as dot-com and dot-org, and an easy-to-remember name can fetch millions of dollars
in the resell market. Owners of popular suffixes can collect hundreds of millions of dollars a year in registration fees.
Though domain names are less prominent these days as more people reach websites using search engines and apps, they are still important for email addresses, billboards and other non-digital advertising.
The dot-org suffix has the distinction of being one of the original domains created in the mid-1980s.
Since 2003, dot-org has been managed by the Public Interest Registry at the Internet Society, a nonprofit founded by many of the internet’s early engineers and scientists. In that role, the registry collects annual fees of about $10 from each of the more than 10 million dot-org names registered worldwide.
The Internet Society uses some of that money to finance its advocacy and administrative programs, which include creating technical standards for the internet.
It said proceeds from the sale will fund an endowment to provide more diversified and sustainable resources long term. The group described Ethos Capital as “a mission-driven firm” committed to continuing the registry’s operations.
The investment firm’s executives include a former senior vice president at the regulatory body for ICANN.
Although dot-org is often associated with nonprofit organizations, it can by registered by anyone, including for-profit corporations and individuals. That won’t change with a new, for-profit owner.
But critics worry that a for-profit owner will be more likely than a nonprofit to raise registration fees. The sale announcement said nothing about prices, and a subsequent blog post mentions only that Ethos has committed to limiting increases to 10% a year — the same cap that had been in place until ICANN lifted it in June 2019.
Critics also fear a new owner could change policies and reduce protections for domain name owners, including non-governmental organizations that operate in authoritarian countries. A website can suddenly become unreachable, for instance, if the suffix owner decides to suspend a registration.
Several advocacy groups, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Public Knowledge, wrote a letter to the Internet Society insisting that dot-org “be managed by a leader that puts the needs of NGOs over profits.”
The suffix has been in for-profit hands before. Before the Public Interest Registry, Verisign Inc. and its predecessor, Network Solutions, managed dot-org, along with dot-com and dot-net.
Jesdanun reported from New York.
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SMC’S performance Chosen for 2020 Regional Kennedy Center/American College Theater Festival
The Santa Monica College Theatre Arts Department production of Flamenco Macbeth! has been selected to participate in the renowned 2020 Regional Kennedy Center/American College Theater Festival (KCACTF), which will be held February 11-15 at CSU Fullerton. To help send stu-dents to the event, SMC will present three pre-festival benefit performances.
Fundraising performances of Flamenco Macbeth! will be held Friday and Saturday, February 7 and 8 at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, February 8 at 2 p.m. in the Theatre Arts Studio Stage on the main SMC campus, 1900 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. Tickets are $20 (plus a modest service charge). Advance tickets are available at smc.edu/studiostage or by calling 310-434-4319 Monday through Friday. Parking is free.
Originally performed at SMC in April/May 2019, Flamenco Macbeth! is one of only six plays selected from productions judged at colleges and universities throughout the western region: Southern and Central California, Southern Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Hawaii, and Guam.
“I am excited for audiences to experience Flamenco Macbeth!.” said SMC Theatre Arts profes-sor Perviz Sawoski, the production’s director. “This production blends the passionate language of Shakespeare with the intricate rhythms of flamenco, creating a new art form! I am so proud of our students and truly excited for us to share this production at the festival.”
Flamenco Macbeth! was adapted by Sawoski from William Shakespeare’s grand tragedy. When witches prophesy that Macbeth will become king of Scotland, he kills the king and names himself the new ruler, leading to civil war, madness, and finally, death. With choreography cre-ated by Sawoski and SMC dance instructor and flamenco expert Cihtli Ocampo, the story is intensified through flamenco rhythms, song, and dance.
The regional performances of the play at CSU Fullerton are scheduled for Friday, February 14, at 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, February 15 at 10 a.m.
SMC has a history of success at the regional levels of the Kennedy Center/ACTF competi-tions. Flamenco Macbeth is SMC’s sixth full-performance production selected for competition at the regional festival in the past decade. Others include Quartet: 4 Short Plays by Samuel Beckett (2017), M. Courage (2016), The Old Lady Shows Her Medals (2014), Heart Mountain (2013), and Cesar and Ruben (2012).
For more information, please call 310-434-4319.SUBMITTED BY GRACE SMITH, SMC MEDIA INFORMATION OFFICER
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Students Invited to Submit Original Artwork for the City’s 2020 Student Art Exhibit
The City of Malibu and the Harry Barovsky Memorial Youth Commission invite local students to participate in the 2020 Student Art Exhibit, which opens with a public reception Friday, February 7, 5 to 7 p.m. at City Hall.
“I look forward to seeing the wide variety of media and depth of artistic expression that our talented young local artists create,” said Mayor Karen Farrer. “I am very proud of the impressive accomplishments of our Youth Commission and their hard work and passion for contributing to the Malibu community.”
The exhibit will feature original artwork by Malibu youth in grades TK-12 and will be open for viewing in City Hall February 10 through March 6 during open hours (Monday through Thursday, 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Fridays 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.). The reception on February 7 will include light refreshments and poetry readings by Malibu High School students as part of the Malibu Poet Laureate Program.
Artists may submit artwork Monday, January 20 through Wednesday, January 29, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Michael Landon Center at Malibu Bluffs Park.
Due to the limited amount of gallery space, priority will be given to students residing in Malibu. Artwork submitted after January 29, 2020 will only be considered based on available gallery space.
Submission requirements: Complete and sign the Malibu Student Art Exhibit Application and Artwork License and
Release Form. The form is available to download and print at MalibuCity.org/StudentArtExhibit or in-person at the Michael Landon Center at Malibu Bluffs Park. Submit the completed form with your artwork to the Michael Landon Center.
Artwork hanging guidelines:Framed artwork is preferred.Include matting or framing and a firmly fixed backing with a secure hanging medium.For framed artwork, remove glass front. The weight must be less than 2 lbs. If artwork does not include a secure hanging mechanism, it may be altered.For more information, visit MalibuCity.org/StudentArtExhibit or call 310-317-1364.
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Scheduled for January 28, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will consider new requirements for massage businesses (establishments) to help prevent human trafficking and protect public health and safety. If the ordinance amendment is adopted, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public Health) would be required to inspect and permit all massage businesses in the unincorporated areas of the County of Los Angeles.
The Board of Supervisors directed County Counsel, in consultation with the Department of Public Health and the Business License Division under the Treasurer and Tax Collector, to pre-pare an ordinance that creates health and safety requirements for massage establishments, requires a public health permit, and sets a public health permit fee to recover program costs.
The proposed ordinance contains certain provisions, such as:Requirements for a Public Health permit and a business licenseRequirements for massage tables and sanitation of linensProhibiting advertising of unsolicited servicesRequiring that a notice be posted regarding slavery and human traffickingIf the law is adopted, Public Health inspections of massage businesses could begin early this
year within the unincorporated areas of the County of Los Angeles. Existing massage business-es would need to meet the new requirements of the ordinance by July 2. Inspections in incor-porated cities would be dependent upon the city contracting with the County for this service.
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California threatened with funds loss over abortion coverage
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press
Saying that California is violating a federal law, the Trump administration on Friday threatened the state with a potential loss of federal health care funds over its requirement that insurance plans cover abortions.
The announcement was timed to coincide with the anti-abortion March for Life in the nation’s capital, and came on a day when President Donald Trump became the first president to address the marchers in person. Religious conservatives are a core element of Trump’s political coalition, and his administration has gone out of its way to deliver on their demands.
The federal Health and Human Services Department said it is issuing a “notice of violation,” giving California 30 days to comply with a federal law known as the Weldon amendment. That law bars federal health care funding from being provided to states or entities that practice “discrimination” against a health care organization on the basis that it “does not provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or refer for abortions.”
The head of the HHS Office for Civil Rights, Roger Severino, said California is violating that restriction by requiring insurance plans to cover abortions. According to Severino, 28,000 Californians had abortion-free plans prior to the state’s requirements and have now lost that option. The federal government has received complaints from an order of nuns — the Missionary Guadalupanas of the Holy Spirit — as well as Skyline Wesleyan Church near San Diego.
“If states receive federal funds ... they cannot discriminate against a health plan that declines to cover abortions,” said Severino.
California’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, alluded to the political overtones of the announcement and the Republican administration’s ongoing feud with California on numerous issues in denying that the state is doing anything wrong.
“Despite a federal opinion four years ago confirming California’s compliance with the Weldon amendment, the Trump administration would rather rile up its base to score cheap political points and risk access to care for millions than do what’s right,” Newsom said in a statement. “California will continue to protect a woman’s right to choose, and we won’t back down from defending reproductive freedom for everybody.”
Severino did not specify which of many streams of federal health care funds amounting to tens of billions of dollars might be in jeopardy for California. That could include money for community health centers, Medicaid health insurance for low-income people, and basic public health activities like educating parents about vaccines.
“Our goal is to seek compliance, and we are going to give them 30 days, so we do not have to cross that bridge,” said Severino. Other states could also face federal actions.
Federal law has long barred the use of taxpayer money to pay for abortions, except in cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the woman. That bipartisan consensus could change if a Democrat wins the White House in November, since the Democratic candidates have pledged to take a more assertive stance on abortion rights.
The HHS civil rights office headed by Severino has traditionally mainly handled complaints about privacy violations. Under Trump, it added a new division to handle cases of alleged discrimination on the basis of religious or moral scruples.
But a federal judge in New York last year blocked a Trump administration rule that could have opened the way for more clinicians and health care workers to refuse to participate in abortions and other procedures because of religious or moral objections.
U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer said the administration’s claim that there has been a significant increase in complaints about health care industry workers being forced to violate their conscience was “flatly untrue.”
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Police 101: Behind the Blue Wall
The patrol officer and I were just hitting the street to start night watch when the first radio call came in: A pistol-whipping assault in a Wells Fargo bank. We hung a left toward the location. Seconds later, the incident was upgraded: Possible bank robbery. I bolted straight in my seat. A bank robbery in the genteel seaside city of Santa Monica! I had lucked out with my ride-along!
The officer hunched over the steering wheel and the Crown Victoria sliced through traffic. My adrenaline zinged as we zoomed. The radio squawked again with further incident details: A mentally ill homeless woman had caused the disturbance outside the bank. Situation handled. All clear. I think even the officer was a little bummed.
The ride-along, where I got to go out on patrol with a cop, was part of the Santa Monica Community Police Academy, a 12-week course that gives regular people a chance to peer behind the blue curtain to better understand how police work. Many law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, run these free academies. They’re a great community relations tool for an institution that captures the public’s imagination yet is often resented.
Having covered true crime as a journalist and made the stuff up as a novelist, I was keen to glean real details of police work I could use in my writing, plus I’m just into the topic of criminal justice. I signed up and learned a ton.
Every week, officers offered presentations on different aspects of policing, including active shooters and police shootings, narcotics and SWAT, DUIs and traffic accident investigation. I thought the latter would be a yawn but it wasn’t at all. Who knew that hi-tech license-plate readers can detect stolen cars as they drive by? We could ask anything about policing that we wanted. Nothing was deemed a dumb question.
We went on field trips through the police station. We visited the bulletproof-windowed communications room and saw dispatchers juggling calls coming in on several different computer screens. We toured the forensics lab and saw how painstaking and time-consuming fingerprint matching can be. We watched a suspect being booked in the jail and studied the rubber-lined cells where drunks, addicts, and generally mentally unstable types are put so they don’t harm themselves. We even went for a cool ride in the Santa Monica Harbor Patrol boat.
I learned all kinds of things that could be useful as plot devices or simply to add realistic detail in a crime novel. A person in a diabetic shock behaves like a drunk. Fleeing suspects may change their clothing, but rarely their shoes. Shoeprints, however, are hard to definitively match. Determining the direction of gunshots in a city is tricky because the sound ricochets off buildings.
Pepper spray is nicknamed “taco sauce.” Many police dogs are trained in Eastern Europe and respond to commands in languages like Czech. If you’re barricading yourself inside a room with a door that opens outward, tie a belt around the doorknob and hang on.
We also got a glimpse into how cops think, which is based on two things: they never know how a situation is going to unfold, as innocuous as it may seem at first, and they want to go home on two feet not in a wooden box at the end of their watch. We got a taste of how that plays out during a traffic stop role-playing exercise.
We were the cops, and two plainclothes officers pretended to be the guys we pulled over in an SUV. With me, they were drunk and wouldn’t obey commands. That was pretty frustrating. With others, they stuck cell phone cameras in the “officer’s” face, mouthed off, or worse, pulled out a gun (plastic), threatening to shoot themselves or us, the officers.
The point was cops don’t know how even a traffic stop is going to turn out, and they have to make decisions that carry high-stakes consequences and make them in the moment. We also got to experience how they train for that through a video-game like simulator that sets up nerve-wracking scenarios such as a backyard shootout with multiple shooters.
This course was one of the best research assignments I’ve given myself. I came away not only equipped as a better writer, but with a better understanding of police work and more empathy for the men and women who choose this career. Rule of law is essential in a democracy, but it’s a tough job.
Christina Hoag is the author of novels Girl on the Brink and Skin of Tattoos and the nonfiction Peace in the Hood: Working with Gang Members to End the Violence, used at UCLA, USC and other col-leges. A former journalist for the Miami Herald and Associated Press, she reported from Latin America for Time, Business Week, Financial Times, and other media. She has taught creative writing in a maxi-mum-security prison and to at-risk teen girls.
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Water rates increasingDEAR EDITOR:
The city is proposing water and wastewater water (sewer) rates increases. It is complicated for many to understand.
While it seems laudable that we achieve water sustainability by digging more wells so we use less water that is now obtained from the MWD (Metropolitan water district) and costs more. The city’s goals note this should be accomplished by 2023 with these proposed increases.
In 2015 when the last drought was affecting all of California, the city proposed raising water rates with this same goal of being free of importing MWD water by 2020.
We have not even decreased the amount we get in that period but rather increased it! In 2015/2016 the city purchased 24% of our water from MWD. In 2017/2018 the city purchased 35% of our water from MWD. No recent amounts are noted in the report the city used to determine the increases proposed.
The proposed water rate increase is 20% in year 1, 18% in year 2 and 14% per year after that. Editor’s Note: The combined increase over five years is 109 percent.
The proposed wastewater water rates increase 10% for the first 4 years then 3% for the last year for a cumulative increase of 48%.
However that is not all that will increase. Two new fixed rate charges will be added.
A fixed water rate charge and a fixed wastewater service charge.
These charges will also go up with the proposed % raise of each service.
Then these increased charges will be totaled and subjected to a 10% UUT or utility user tax.
Tier levels will be lowered for amounts of water consumed to encourage use of only 55 gallons per person per day.
Presently my husband and I achieve this goal. We have diligently conserved water since the drought in late 80’s. However when I compared a current bill and did the math my bill will go up over $30 or over a 100% on these two services in the first year. It will be up or $70 or 226% in 5 years.
Protests can be made by a property owner or customer on record. Condo owners in a master metered building should use their address and APN number.
There are two forms, one for each service. These forms must be mailed to the city’s clerk office by Tuesday Jan 28 or delivered in person that day by the time the public hearing occurs that night at city council.
It must include service address or addresses of the property. An APN or assessors parcel number can also be used. The name of owner or customer must be printed and a signature and date as well.
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If the city truly wishes to be sustainable they must stop accepting new development proposals. It seems to me with the massive developments now being built and the future proposals of over 9000 housing units in the next 8 years we will still be importing water from MWD and paying a lot more our bills.
Linda Lancaster, Santa Monica.
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CountywidePublic Defender Leads $1.2 Million Mental Health Diversion Grant
The LA County Public Defender’s Office is the lead agency for a $1.2 million grant to divert people suffering from mental illness out of jail and into treatment. LA County has been awarded the two-year grant from the MacArthur Foundation to directly address the over-incarceration of the mentally ill.
Los Angeles County operates the world’s largest jail system and its jails remain critically overcrowded. One of the main drivers of the local jail population is the incarceration of the mentally ill.
The grant will allow the Public Defender’s Office, working with other County and City agen-cies, to expand pre-plea diversion for those in custody as a result of a mental disorder. The effort will work toward breaking the cycle from medical and mental health facilities to custody, with a focus on the homeless population.
“Mentally ill people do not belong in jails,” LA County Public Defender Ricardo D. García said. “The startup funding provided by the MacArthur Foundation represents a substantial opportu-nity to mitigate the counterproductive use of criminal courts and jails as holding centers for the mentally ill men, women and children of Los Angeles County.”
This new initiative will include embedding mental health professionals in high volume court-rooms, same-day assessments of defendants who appear to suffer from a mental health disor-der, and the pre-plea release and diversion of qualifying individuals into mental health treatment programs.
To help guide the launch of this program, the initiative will utilize provisions of AB 1810, a state law enacted in 2018 that allows pre-plea diversion for some defendants with mental health needs.
Partner agencies in this endeavor include the Los Angeles County Alternate Public Defender; Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office; Department of Mental Health; Sheriff’s Department; Department of Probation; Department of Public Health; Health Agency Departments; County Counsel’s Bail Reform Team; Project 180, with support from the Superior Court.
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go find the radiation doctor, find a medical oncologist and all of these doctors all over town,” Kusske said, “so we were like, okay, we’re going to bring it all to the patient,”.
As she continued describing the center’s progression over the years, Kusske said, as recent as six months ago, patients who had a lesion in their breasts that a doctor could not feel had to be wheeled two blocks down the street to see a radiologist, but now UCLA Breast Center Santa Monica will house radiology, oncology, surgery, pathology and imaging departments in-house.
Shroki remembers laughing with her husband about having to be wheeled down the street.
“It makes me happy to be part of this growth (and) to be able to return to the center to celebrate the unique program, because this was a place who took care of me and made me well,” she said. “They feel like family — like a really, really distant one that you didn’t ask for — but still one who really saved your life.”
Kusske said, “I think we’re a unique program that offers patients on the west side of the 405 a unique experience and
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Shroki said she could speak for hours detailing the comprehensive care she received personally from Dr. Kusske at a time when she was feeling a lot of emotions.
“Essentially, every new patient who comes through gets treated like that,” Kusske said, before she went on to enjoy an evening of laughs with her peers.
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CitywideSamohi student named Presidential Scholar candidate
Santa Monica high school student Rex Evans has been named one of more than 4,500 candidates in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Scholars Program. The candidates were selected from nearly 3.6 million students expected to graduate from U.S. high schools in the year 2020.
Inclusion in the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program is one of the highest honors bestowed upon graduating high school seniors. Scholars are selected on the basis of superior academic and artistic achievements, leadership qualities, strong character and involvement in community and school activities.
The U.S. Presidential Scholars Program was established in 1964 by Executive Order of the President to recognize some of our nation’s most distinguished graduating seniors for their accomplishments in many areas: academic success, leadership, and service to school and com-munity. It was expanded in 1979 to recognize students demonstrating exceptional scholarship and talent in the visual, creative, and performing arts. In 2015, the program was expanded once again to recognize students who demonstrate ability and accomplishment in career and tech-nical fields. Annually, up to 161 U.S. Presidential Scholars are chosen from among that year’s senior class, representing excellence in education and the promise of greatness in America’s youth. All Scholars are invited to Washington, DC in June for the National Recognition Program, featuring various events and enrichment activities and culminating in the presentation of the Presidential Scholars Medallion during a White House-sponsored ceremony.
A distinguished panel of educators will review these submissions and select approximately 600 semifinalists in early April. The Commission on Presidential Scholars, a group of up to 32 eminent citizens appointed by the President, will select the finalists, and the U.S. Department of Education will announce the Scholars in May.
Scholars will be invited to Washington, DC, for several days in June to receive the Presidential Scholars Medallion at a recognition ceremony and to participate in events and activities.
For more information about the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program, parents and students can call the U.S. Presidential Scholars Office at 507.931.8345, or send an e-mail to [email protected].
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At first, the geofences slowed scooters and bikes to 5 miles per hour because officials worried that shutting them off completely would result in obstructive pileups of abandoned devices. But last summer, the city started requiring Bird, Lime, Lyft and Jump to gradually bring scooters and bikes to a full stop and collect any devices
left behind, which officials said has been more effective in preventing collisions and conflict between riders and pedestrians.
But the technology has its limitations. Kyle Kozar, a senior transportation planner who oversees the Shared Mobility Pilot Program, said devices are not always able to immediately register a geofence.
While that matters less for larger areas like the beach bike path, Kozar said it can be tricky to geofence anything narrower, such as Palisades Park or the Promenade.
“Just like your cellphone, there can be all types of signal and connection issues, and on top of that, the GPS is accurate down to 30 feet or sometimes worse depending on the connection,” Kozar said. “It might take some
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time before the GPS recognizes that they’ve entered a prohibited zone. You could ride into Palisades Park and if you’re moving at 10 to 15 miles per hour, you can cover some distance in the 30 seconds before it registers.”
Using geofencing to keep scooters off of sidewalks — as officials in Santa Monica and other cities have proposed — would be almost impossible with current technology, Kozar said. A geofence can’t detect a device in the time it takes to ride a scooter across a sidewalk or differentiate between the sidewalk and the street with 100% accuracy, he said.
“You don’t want to get into a situation where someone is in a bike lane next to the sidewalk but the geofence registers that they’re on the sidewalk and shuts the device off while they’re
riding with traffic,” he said. “That would be a risk to the user.”
New technology to restrict sidewalk riding is in the works, however. Last summer, the city partnered with Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and Amazon Web Services to create a prototype of a technology that uses a combination of GPS and gyroscopic vibration sensors to distinguish between the sidewalk and the street. Scooter companies have expressed interest in bringing the technology to market, Kozar said.
“It will take a lot of testing and trial and error,” Kozar said. “But all cities want the tools to solve these problems and companies know that.”
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that two-step while their candidate is stuck in Washington participating in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.
Several campaigns said they’ve been working to perfect this balance for months.
“Super Tuesday has never really been March 3 for us,” said Pete Kavanaugh, an adviser for former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign. “In our minds and from a resource allocation perspective, Super Tuesday begins in early February.”
Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire businessman, is ignoring the early states entirely and using his nearly bottomless resources to campaign hard in the Super Tuesday states.
“We need supporters for Mike Bloomberg to vote early, independent of whatever is going on,” said Will Dubbs, deputy states director for Bloomberg’s campaign. “It is just very, very important for us to make sure we bank those votes, and we can concentrate our efforts elsewhere.”
Bernie Sanders, meanwhile, sees early voting as a way to boost turnout among core constituencies like young, minority and working-class voters. Early voting opens new opportunities for people with strict work schedules or other barriers to voting to find time to cast ballots beyond the typical Election Day, spokeswoman Sarah Ford said.
“Early voting is another vehicle to make sure those people have the opportunity to vote for Bernie,” she said.
The campaign of Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is educating volunteers in Minnesota, Colorado, California and Texas about the early voting process. And Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar rallied in her home state recently to mark the start of early voting and generate enthusiasm among voters who have sent her to the U.S. Senate three times, while freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar campaigned on behalf of Sanders.
Davis Senseman slept in an RV outside a Minnesota polling place with friends so that they could be some of the first people to vote in the presidential election.
“With Elizabeth Warren I finally had a candidate that I’m really excited about,” said Senseman, a 42-year-old attorney. “I want to do this first because I’m for something, not voting against something.”
The biggest early voting state, California, will mail ballots to more than 12 million voters starting Feb. 3, the same day as the Iowa caucuses, though not all of those voters will get a Democratic primary ballot. Colorado, North Carolina and Texas, which offer combinations of mail-in and in-person early voting, are also likely to have a high
percentage of early voters, said Michael McDonald, a voting expert who directs the United States Elections Project at the University of Florida.
It’s difficult to predict how many people will take advantage of early voting, McDonald said. While early voting offers an opportunity for campaigns to ensure their most intense supporters cast ballots early, many primary voters will wait until they begin seeing the results in earlier voting states in case their preferred candidates drop out. At least one state, Minnesota, gives voters an option to retrieve their ballot and change their votes up to a week before Election Day.
California has by far the largest population of would-be early voters. Paul Mitchell, who runs the nonpartisan Political Data Inc. that analyzes and sells voter data, predicts about a quarter of the state’s eventual Democratic electorate will have cast ballots by the time Nevada holds its caucuses on Feb. 22. He projects that will increase to 40% by the time South Carolina votes on Feb. 29.
“If you have people who are with you now, you need to bank those votes,” he said. “If you’re running a campaign and can turn out 1 million voters on Election Day, if you can get 200,000 of them to vote early, that reduces your workload.”
In Colorado, where everyone is mailed a ballot, state officials expect 60% of voters to send their ballots back early. In North Carolina, about a quarter of people could vote early, McDonald predicted.
While early voting is an important component of campaign strategy, some experts and campaign veterans doubt its overall effect on a race’s outcome. Robby Mook, who managed Democrat Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, said the voters who are likely to vote early are a campaign’s most hardcore supporters who would have supported that candidate no matter what.
“You’re often cannibalizing from what you were going to get on Election Day anyway,” he said. “The question every campaign, if it’s honest, is asking itself is: ‘How many new votes have I turned out?’”
But other observers say early voting can affect candidates’ momentum. Take California, which takes weeks to finish counting its ballots. The first reported votes on election night will be a reflection of the votes that came in earliest. If a candidate does particularly well with those voters, he or she could get an initial boost of energy, even if the results change as later votes roll in in the following weeks.
“If campaigns can use the mechanics of the election to drive their votes to get cast in those earlier tranches, you can have a greater impact on the national narrative,” Mitchell said.
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The Chinese calendar is a lunisolar calendar, in which the start of each month are marked according to the moon.
Though China also uses the Gregorian calendar, most holidays are calculated by the lunisolar way of time tracking, and
many celebrate their birthdays by this calendar as well. Happy 4718, the year of the Metal Rat.
Year of the Rat
ARIES (March 21-April 19). You’ll be struck by the number of people around you who you genuinely admire, a few in your actual circle, many in the cultural community and a few who happen to be versions of yourself.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Each person travels in a cloud of their own convictions. You’ll know right away which personal atmospheres will mix well with yours and which will be intolerable (in which case this is no day to argue, just leave).
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory, the higher ones only become an issue after the lower ones have been fulfilled. In a way, you’re grateful for your complex problems. It’s a sign that your basics are solid.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Dopamine is to the brain what cupcakes are to the world of carbohydrates. In both cases, little goes a long way. Too much pleasure, anticipa-tion and wanting is unhealthy, addictive even.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). It seems there are dozens of reasons why you shouldn’t do a thing and only one reason you should. When the one reason is important enough — as in love, ethics, family, country — opposition is inconsequential.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Enlightenment is a terrible goal, as it cannot be achieved or even discovered. Instead, it’s a state in which it is found that there is nothing to find. Your peace will come inside the moments you inhabit. No striving.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). People who ask for your opinion are really just trying to figure out who you are, where you stand and what you might possibly do for them. They want to know, like and trust you more than they want your inner thought process.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). The philosopher Seneca believed that to laugh in the face of fear or stay calm in tumult could only be the result of “a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.” Maybe. Or maybe you’re there because you did the work.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Yes, you are the prophet of your own story, generating numerous predictions per hour and seeing many of them come true. Wisdom comes of you being willing, and even excited, to be proven wrong.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You’re already in a con-stant collaboration with yourself. Mix in a few more opinions from the peanut gallery and it all becomes a little much. It will be more peaceful and more fun if you go this one solo.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Get creative on paper. How much brainstorming do you need to do to get to a real solution for your problem? As much as it takes. You’ll know it when you see it.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You’re not sure what’s on the other side of your fear, but you can certain that whatever its qualities, you will experience them in retrospect as the sublime reward for courage in motion.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (JANUARY 25)
This year rolls in on a float of flowers and waving well-wishers throwing candy. Ah, the spectacle! But work prevents you from staying too long at the parade. The months ahead let you expand into the joy and liberation that have for too long been an unclaimed destiny. This is yours. Clasp it and bring it in. Sagittarius and Virgo adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 27, 2, 18, 33 and 6.
This Lunar New Year arrives at the intersection of taxonomy and mythology with a pressing question: What is good about a rat? Historically, millions of humans have been killed by rat-borne diseases such as the plague and salmonellosis. However, many have also been saved by the studies done on rats, whose behaviors, for scientific intents and purposes, often mimic that of humans. Rats are loyal and exhibit empathetic behaviors includ-ing making selfless choices, exhibiting affection, mourning their dead and even laughing. It also bears mention that rats are extremely high on the animal intelligence scale. In a mythological con-
text, the rat represents a year in which intelligence reigns, cleverness wins, and people can turn mis-fortune into felicity through empathy, morality and proper attention to priorities. This is also an omen for prosperity as rats were respected symbols of opulence and fertility. (An average female rat can produce six times a year with four to eight pups a litter.) As for the metal element of this year, it’s a harbinger of hope for industry, especially trans-portation and tech. May our better angels guide us toward responsible and sustainable solutions in this regard. Happy New Year!
THE YEAR OF THE RAT
The intellectual energy of Aquarius encompasses intellectual developments including mathematics, the language of science, the cosmos and also the language of music. Hit-maker Alicia Keys has natal sun, Mercury and Mars all in Aquarius. Keys also leans into the philanthropy of her sign as co-founder of Keep a Child Alive, a foundation that provides medicine to African families. Write Holiday Mathis at HolidayMathis.com.
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Handicap Zone Violation 1200blk 2nd St 1:29 p.m.Encampment 1900blk Lincoln Blvd 1:41 p.m.Arson 1400blk 25th St 1:49 p.m.Vehicle Parked In Alley 1200blk Wilshire Blvd 1:55 p.m.Vehicle Parked In Alley 1000blk Euclid St 1:57 p.m.Vehicle Parked On Sidewalk 3100blk Highland Ave 1:58 p.m.Mark & Tag Abandoned Vehicle 3000blk 18th St 1:59 p.m.Petty Theft Report 4th St / Arizona Ave 2:18 p.m.Loud Music 1300blk 2nd St 2:29 p.m.Grand Theft Auto Report 3300blk Olympic Blvd 2:34 p.m.Burglary Report 900blk 6th St 3:27 p.m.Panhandling Lincoln Blvd / Interstate 10 3:28 p.m.Petty Theft Just Occurred 1300blk 3rd Street Prom 3:32 p.m.Hit And Run Felony Investigation Lincoln Blvd / Pico Blvd 3:38 p.m.Battery Just Occurred 2200blk Colorado Ave 3:40 p.m.Petty Theft Report 1300blk 2nd St 3:48 p.m.Elder Abuse 500blk Olympic Blvd W 3:58 p.m.Elder Abuse 1400blk 17th St 3:58 p.m.Threats Report/Investigations 600blk 23rd St 4:00 p.m.Grand Theft Report 100blk Broadway 4:01 p.m.Petty Theft Report 1200blk 4th St 4:07 p.m.Handicap Zone Violation 200blk Wilshire Blvd 4:39 p.m.Vehicle Blocking Driveway 1100blk 12th St 5:27 p.m.Vehicle Blocking Driveway 1000blk 26th St 5:52 p.m.Indecent Exposure Now 1800blk 9th St 6:20 p.m.Construction Noise 2800blk 3rd St 6:25 p.m.Petty Theft Just Occurred 2200blk Lincoln Blvd 6:34 p.m.Public Intoxication 2000blk 20th St 6:56 p.m.Grand Theft Auto In Progress 2nd St / Santa Monica Blvd 7:09 p.m.Public Intoxication 15th St / Arizona Ave 7:15 p.m.Vehicle Blocking Driveway 600blk 10th St 7:25 p.m.Loud Music Main St / Hill St 7:50 p.m.Construction Noise 800blk 4th St 7:57 p.m.Traffic Collision - No Injuries City Prop Involved 2800blk Wilshire Blvd 9:04 p.m.Vehicle Parked In Alley 1300blk Centinela Ave 9:13 p.m.Hit And Run Misdemeanor Investigation 1200blk 4th St 9:19 p.m.Battery Report 2100blk Santa Monica Blvd 10:26 p.m.Loud Music Main St / Pier Ave 11:41 p.m.
SMDP STAFF CHOSE THE FOLLOWING FROM 40 CALLS ON JAN. 23
EMS 400blk San Vicente Blvd 12:08 a.m.Elevator Rescue 500blk Wilshire Blvd 1:11 a.m.EMS 2000blk Arizona Ave 1:17 a.m.EMS 1900blk Pico Blvd 1:36 a.m.Automatic Alarm 400blk 14th St 3:38 a.m.Automatic Alarm 1200blk 2nd St 5:22 a.m.EMS 500blk Pico Blvd 5:24 a.m.EMS 1300blk 15th St 6:26 a.m.EMS 1100blk 3rd St 7:56 a.m.EMS 800blk Pico Blvd 8:37 a.m.EMS 200blk Ocean Ave 10:01 a.m.EMS 1400blk Lincoln Blvd 10:11 a.m.EMS 1300blk 17th St 10:56 a.m.EMS 200blk Broadway 10:59 a.m.Automatic Alarm 2200blk Colorado Ave 11:02 a.m.EMS 1200blk Pico Blvd 11:24 a.m.EMS 1500blk 6th St 11:31 a.m.Trash/Dumpster Fire 1600blk Ocean Front Walk 11:56 a.m.EMS 1300blk 20th St 12:27 p.m.
EMS 1100blk 5th St 12:30 p.m.EMS 300blk Olympic Dr 12:42 p.m.EMS 800blk 17th St 1:22 p.m.EMS 400blk Expo Line 1:49 p.m.EMS 600blk Ozone St 2:59 p.m.EMS 100blk Wilshire Blvd 3:08 p.m.EMS Lincoln Blvd / Pico Blvd 3:40 p.m.EMS 1800blk 9th St 4:02 p.m.EMS 1000blk Wilshire Blvd 4:07 p.m.EMS 1300blk Ocean Ave 6:04 p.m.EMS 1300blk 20th St 6:43 p.m.Elevator Rescue 1500blk 2nd St 7:01 p.m.EMS 1400blk 4th St 7:31 p.m.EMS 16th St / Santa Monica Blvd 7:43 p.m.EMS 1000blk 5th St 8:00 p.m.EMS 1500blk 4th St 8:19 p.m.EMS 1100blk 4th St 8:52 p.m.EMS 900blk 7th St 9:22 p.m.EMS 500blk Olympic Blvd W 9:25 p.m.EMS 200blk Bay St 9:30 p.m.EMS 1300blk 15th St 10:56 p.m.
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C FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 2019325102 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 12/19/2019 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as NataFoxHair. 7204 Melrose Ave , Los Angeles, CA 90045. The full name of registrant(s) is/are: Nataliia Yarovenko 7204 Melrose Ave Los Angeles, CA 90045. This Business is being conducted by: an Individual. The regis-trant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed on (Date)02/2018. /s/: Nataliia Yarovenko. Nataliia Yarovenko. This statement was filed with
the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 12/19/2019. NOTICE: THIS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT EXPIRES FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fic-titious business name state-ment in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411et seq.,Busi-ness and Professions Code). SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS to publish 01/18/2020, 01/25/2020, 02/01/2020, 02/08/2020.
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